Eccentric Flower talk:200911/New Old Words II

Spc476:

You wrote about Racter? You're about the third person I've come across that's written about that half crazed program. I know I've written a few times ( http://boston.conman.org/2006/03/09.1 http://boston.conman.org/2006/03/13.1 http://boston.conman.org/2004/02/22.1 http://boston.conman.org/2009/01/31.1 and http://boston.conman.org/2008/06/18.2 whereby I realize I actually *have* the source code to Racter).

-- 08:01, 23 November 2009 (GMT)

DanLyke:

I want more dinner guests who talk about Racter and fewer who talk about opera. However Opera is okay because those crazy buggers are doing some really cool stuff with their self-hosting tools and web standards.

-- 16:38, 23 November 2009 (GMT)

Columbina:

I've been interested in Racter ever since Douglas Hofstadter wrote about him and other things in Scientific American. For more on SHRDLU's limited world and his utter grammatical mastery of it, there is a chapter called "SHRDLU, Toy of Man's Designing," somewhere in Gödel, Escher, Bach.

-- 17:15, 23 November 2009 (GMT)